Published Jun 18, 2026, 5:30 PM EDT His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer. Tinkering with his own build at age 10 turned into building PCs for friends and family, fostering a passion that would ultimately take shape as a career path.  Besides being the first call for tech support for those close to him, Ty is a computer science student, with his focus being cloud computing and networking. He also competed in semi-pro Counter-Strike for 8 years, making him intimately familiar with everything to do with peripherals. I've lost count of how many times I've tried to make Linux my daily driver, and I've lost count of how many times I've gone crawling back to Windows, leaving my Linux partition to collect dust. For one reason or another, I'd always give it a couple of weeks, and then I'd stop booting into it because of a few small annoyances that were outside of my control .…